Our formal application to adopt a child, in the 0-2 age range from Ethiopia,has been approved!
The next step is for us to sign and initial a bunch o' documents and send in the application fee of $550. After they receive all the documents and money, we can proceed with the homestudy portion.
We learned this week, that unless we want an additional $500 homestudy adendum fee, we will have to wait until Ehren is born to complete our homestudy. This is a little bit of a bummer, because we were hoping to have most of the heavy duty paperwork and meetings completed before we re-enter newborn land, but since we are less than 3 months from his due date, and we will be able to complete everything excluding the last home visit (and, wait for it, a background clearance on Ehren...) we think it would be a silly financial decision to try to rush to complete what we'd have to revise anyway.
We'd appreciate specific prayer in time to complete our documents, interviews, and paperwork. Additionally, as with most families in the adoption process, we ask for prayer for financial provision. We've already had to pay these fees once to Holt and our previous homestudy agency, and so they are a bit of a kick in the pants. Also, be praying that Ehren isn't running some in-utero gambleing ring that will send up red falgs on his teeny tiny baby background check, this would be an epic brother fail.
Also, I am trying to convince my amazingly funny and wise husband to join in on the fun of YourCoffeyBreak. Don't you guys want to hear the banter and weirdness of the two of us posting? Will everyone leave a peer-pressured plea, addressed to Lachlan, to dust off his key board and enter blog-land?!
